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Major and trace element chemical analyses of the Plio‐Pleistocene Bardin Bluffs Formation, on the margin of a major ice‐stream of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, yield an anomalous chemically altered sediment composition. The Bardin Bluffs Formation of the Pagodroma Group is one of the key deposits on the Antarctic continent recording glaciomarine sedimentation under open marine fjord conditions as recently as the Plio‐Pleistocene. In modern fjords occupied by outlet glaciers of ice sheets, the composition of fine‐grained terrigenous sediments approaches that of unweathered rock types exposed upstream. In the Bardin Bluffs Formation, average abundances of stable elements (Ti, Al, Zr) approach average upper crustal compositions and the element ratios are consistent with sediments with a cratonic source, implying glacial dispersal from a large shield area through the Lambert Glacier drainage system. Interestingly, the chemical index of alteration (CIA) of these sediments has values similar to those of average shales formed under conditions of chemical weathering. The sediments are particularly depleted in silicate Ca, which has been observed elsewhere in glacial muds sourced from pre‐glacial saprolites. The anomalous chemistry of the Bardin Bluffs Formation can be explained by a sequence of events, involving chemical weathering prior to glacial expansion and erosion. The presence of a remnant 1·5 m deep late Neogene weathering profile at the base of the Bardin Bluffs sequence corroborates this conclusion. Supply of large quantities of chemically weathered materials to Antarctic marginal basins requires at least partial deglaciation of the continent and was previously regarded as uncharacteristic for late Neogene Antarctica. 相似文献
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The snowball Earth hypothesis describes episodes of Neoproterozoic global glaciations, when ice sheets reached sea‐level, the ocean froze to great depth and biota were decimated, accompanied by a complete shutdown of the hydrological cycle. Recent studies of sedimentary successions and Earth systems modelling, however, have brought the hypothesis under considerable debate. The Squantum ‘Tillite’ (Boston Basin, USA), is one of the best constrained snowball Earth successions with respect to age and palaeogeography, and it is suitable to test the hypothesis for the Gaskiers glaciation. The approach used here was to assess the palaeoenvironmental conditions at the type locality of the Squantum Member through an analysis of sedimentary facies and weathering regime (chemical index of alteration). The stratigraphic succession with a total thickness of ca 330 m documents both glacial and non‐glacial depositional environments with a cool‐temperate glacial to temperate non‐glacial climate weathering regime. The base of the succession is composed of thin diamictites and mudstones that carry evidence of sedimentation from floating glacial ice, interbedded with inner shelf sandstones and mudstones. Thicker diamictites interbedded with thin sandstones mark the onset of gravity flow activity, followed by graded sandstones documenting channellized mass gravity flow events. An upward decrease in terrigenous supply is evident, culminating in deep‐water mudstones with a non‐glacial chemical weathering signal. Renewed terrigenous supply and iceberg sedimentation is evident at the top of the succession, beyond which exposure is lost. The glacially influenced sedimentary facies at Squantum Head are more consistent with meltwater dominated alpine glaciation or small local ice caps. The chemical index of alteration values of 61 to 75 for the non‐volcanic rocks requires significant exposure of land surfaces to allow chemical weathering. Therefore, extreme snowball Earth conditions with a complete shutdown of the hydrological cycle do not seem to apply to the Gaskiers glaciation. 相似文献
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KROON NORRIS KLAUS IAN T. ALEXANDER LEON PAUL BARDOT CHARLES E. BARKER JEAN-PIERRE BELLIER CHARLES D. BLOME LEON J. CLARKE JOCHEN ERBACHER KRISTINA L. FAUL MARY ANNE HOLMES BRIAN T. HUBER MIRIAM E. KATZ KENNETH G. MACLEOD SANDRA MARCA FRANCISA C. MARTINEZ-RUIZ ISAO MITA MUTSUMI NAKAI JAMES G. OGG DOROTHY K. PAK THOMAS K. PLETSCH JEAN M. SELF-TRIAL NICHOLAS J. SHACKLETON JAN SMIT WILLIAM USSLERIII DAVID K. WATKINS JOEN WIDMARK & PAUL A. WILSON 《Geology Today》1998,14(6):222-226
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A comparison of scavenging and deposition processes in global models: results from the WCRP Cambridge Workshop of 1995 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
P. J. RASCH J. FEICHTER K LAW N. MAHOWALD J. PENNER C. BENKOVITZ C. GENTHON C. GIANNAKOPOULOS P. KASIBHATLA D. KOCH H. LEVY T. MAKI M. PRATHER D. L. ROBERTS G.J. ROELOFS D. STEVENSON Z. STOCKWELL S. TAGUCHI M. KRITZ M. CHIPPERFIELD D. BALDOCCHI P. McMURRY L. BARRIE Y. BALKANSKI R. CHATFIELD E. KJELLSTROM M. LAWRENCE H. N. LEE J. LELIEVELD K. J. NOONE J. SEINFELD G. STENCHIKOV S. SCHWARTZ C. WALCEK D. WILLIAMSON 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2000,52(4):1025-1056
We report on results from a World Climate Research Program workshop on representations of scavenging and deposition processes in global transport models of the atmosphere. 15 models were evaluated by comparing simulations of radon, lead, sulfur dioxide, and sulfate against each other, and against observations of these constituents. This paper provides a survey on the simulation differences between models. It identifies circumstances where models are consistent with observations or with each other, and where they differ from observations or with each other. The comparison shows that most models are able to simulate seasonal species concentrations near the surface over continental sites to within a factor of 2 over many regions of the globe. Models tend to agree more closely over source (continental) regions than for remote (polar and oceanic) regions. Model simulations differ most strongly in the upper troposphere for species undergoing wet scavenging processes. There are not a sufficient number of observations to characterize the climatology (long‐term average) of species undergoing wet scavenging in the upper troposphere. This highlights the need for either a different strategy for model evaluation (e.g., comparisons on an event by event basis) or many more observations of a few carefully chosen constituents. 相似文献
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Fiona WILLIAMSON Rob ALLAN Guoyu REN Tsz-cheung LEE Wing-hong LUI Hisayuki KUBOTA Jun MATSUMOTO Jürg LUTERBACHER Clive WILKINSON Kevin WOOD 《大气科学进展》2018,35(8):899-904
正1.Introduction Historic instrumental weather observations,made on land or at sea from as early as the 17th century(e.g.,Camuffo et al.,2010),are integral to extending our understanding of the decadal and centennial variations of Earth’s climate and for comparison with paleo-proxy data.The potential of such data is shown to best effect when used in dynamical 4D global 相似文献
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Water vapor transport in the NCAR CCM2 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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McLAREN SANDRA; SANDIFORD MIKE; POWELL ROGER; NEUMANN NARELLE; WOODHEAD JON 《Journal of Petrology》2006,47(12):2281-2302
The effect of radiogenic heat production within the crust onthermal processes such as crustal anatexis is generally disregardedas bulk geochemical models suggest that crustal heat generationrates are too low to effect significant heating. However, theMount Painter Province in northern South Australia is characterizedby a total crustal contribution to surface heat flow of morethan twice the global average. The province is composed dominantlyof Proterozoic granites and granite gneisses with an area averageheat production of 16·1 µW/m3; individual lithologieshave heat production >60 µW/m3. These Proterozoic rocksare intruded by the British Empire Granite, a younger intrusivewhose origin has remained enigmatic. Isotope geochemistry suggestscrustal sources for the melt and it has a crystallization ageof 440450 Ma, which places the setting >750 km inboardof the nearest active plate boundary zone at this time. Phaseequilibria calculations suggest that temperatures of at least720750°C are required to produce the granite butthe intensity of crustal thickening during Palaeozoic deformation(12%) cannot account for these conditions. Here we describea model for the generation of the British Empire Granite inwhich the primary thermal perturbation for mid-crustal anatexiswas provided by the burial of the high heat-producing MountPainter basement rocks beneath the known thickness of Neoproterozoiccover sediments. The high heat-producing rocks at Mount Painterimply that the natural range and variability of crustal heatproduction is much greater than previously believed, with importantconsequences for our understanding of temperature-dependentcrustal processes including the exploitation of geothermal energyresources. KEY WORDS: geothermal energy; low-pressure anatexis; thermal conductivity; thermal regime 相似文献
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Climate and landscape during Heinrich Event 3 in south‐western Europe: the small‐vertebrate association from Galls Carboners cave (Mont‐ral,Tarragona, north‐eastern Iberia) 下载免费PDF全文
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GARY J. HUNTER IAN P. WILLIAMSON 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(2):169-179
With an ever-increasing number of land information systems being developed, there is a growing demand by users for systems which support the use of temporal data for time-based studies. System managers, however, may have difficulty responding to these calls because of the lack of available research to guide them in their task. This paper examines the simple method of storing and processing temporal graphical data by the addition of time-encoding attributes to data elements as required. To illustrate the technique, a historical digital cadastral database has been created which al lows users to display and report on the cadastral parcellation of a region at any time in the past. The method can also be widely applied to other data to assist a broad range of space/time-related studies. 相似文献
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